The government is planning to retrain the roughly 10,000 workers expected to lose their jobs as Taiwan moves toward net-zero carbon emissions.
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00:00The government is planning help for the 10,000 or so workers expected to lose their jobs
00:05as Taiwan works to achieve net-zero carbon emissions.
00:10It's looking to use the revenue from carbon taxes on emitters to retrain these workers.
00:16The Environment Ministry says green energy is a promising field for them, as the green
00:20sector should produce 20,000 new jobs.
00:24The Environment, Labour and Economy Ministries are setting up a platform to make this retraining
00:29programme a reality before the 2015 net-zero goal.